On February 17, 1936, workers at the Goodyear plant in Akron, Ohio went on strike. This is a key moment in the organizing of the rubber industry, which is almost completely gone in the United States but which was at the time a major industry...
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This is the grave of Benjamin Goodrich. Born in 1841 in Ripley, New York, he spent his childhood years in that small town. But by the time he was 8,.
On November 11, 1918, French authorities in Indochina created the first labor code for its rubber plantations there, tying workers to the land in a way that would never have.
This is the grave of Charles Goodyear. Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1800, Charles Goodyear moved to Philadelphia in 1814 to learn the furniture business but returned to Connecticut in 1821 to work with his father making buttons and agricultural tools. He moved back...
This is a really powerful piece about how indigenous peoples in South America have integrated the horrors of the rubber baron era into their oral histories and storytelling style. “After.
If you haven't read the Pro Publica report on Firestone funded Charles Taylor's extraordinarily violent takeover of Liberia in 1992, do so. Firestone served as a source of food, fuel,.